I love canned peaches.
-CMD
I totally agree on your comments about the top ten movie lines. How could anyone leave out "Here's looking at you, kid." Or not have at least one line from Casablanca? Maybe they're young and don't know any better. But you do.
-RT
I'm waiting for the entry about names. [My husband] and I have enjoyed thinking of some you might be considering. By the way -- what's the critter's last name going to be??
-AW
On the Movie Boy entry on "The Italian Job" and "Casablanca": Yes Casablanca is amazing. But is it really fair to compare it to a caper movie? Or to compare Michael Caine to Bogart? It's as if you're comparing can openers and philosophy. Not used for the same thing, and philosophy certainly has more gravitas, but just try and open a can of peaches with philosophy--whether Bogart's or Horatio's, the peaches aren't coming out.
-CMD
Ok, I was laughing at loud at the whole 'how hard can it be?' entry.
-AW
I've just read your entry on the birthing class and your joke about breathing. And I have a dispute: The reaction to your running joke has not been universally disapproving. While I have said that it's easy for you to say, I also think you doing your version of birth breathing is quite funny (and for those of you who haven't been blessed to hear it and who see Greg in real life, ask him to demonstrate).
-CMD
Keep the updates coming. They are hilarious. Sorry I don't send you more feedback on your comments, although you know about my problems with [expletive deleted] Internet Explorer.
-RT
I have a gripe: why don't more people send you sincere bits of flattery?
Also, to clarify, I would also point out that there's a difference between articulating a yearning for something (say, Otter's arrival) and complaining. Sometimes I articulate a yearning so well that you can almost vicariously experience it; that doesn't make me complaining and therefore NOT impatient.
Your loving (and NOT impatient) (though clearly geeky dorky and argumentative) wife
Oh, and I think the website is way cool.
As is MovieBoy... hey, all you others out there, go check out MovieBoy; that gets updated almost every weekday. After all, you've got time; you're reading my FEEDBACK to Greg for goodness sake.
-CMD
I gotta tell you, I've seen a bunch of NURSE books over the years, and thought of you. Now that I know how to find you, I'll be sure to send 'em your way. That is, if you don't have them already, which is extremely unlikely.
-EW
So Greg, why is a sick person a patient? Does he or she have to "bear pains and trial without complaint"? So how many patients are really patients? And what about the word "invalid"? Is that word an indication of how we view illness, or is it just a coincident that the noun "invalid" and the adjective "invalid" (being without foundation in fact or truth), though pronounced differently, look exactly the same?
-Mom
P.S. No wonder you are a geek.
Finally, an update!
-CA
Okay. I've just spent I don't know how long reading about your hike and your fertility issues and your parents' sex life and about nurse books and palindromes and looking at photos of your wedding. I hope the purpose of your web site is to assist in the great slacking off of the American workforce because it does excel at that.
-MH
When are you adding a message board to your Web site, so that Greg Tulonen fans from around the country can discuss all things Greg?
-CA
There has got to be a great American Studies dissertation on your Nurse Book collection, but I just haven't figured it out yet -- Constructions of Gender? Medical Ethics? Restrictive Fashion? Genre Lit? Postcolonial Nurses?
-TC
I want daily updates. Then I'll be happy.
-CA
[My wife] and a friend of ours and I have been going over your web site. I don't know why. You are a colossal waste of time, and I mean that only in the nicest of ways.
-MH
On behalf of all the maternity-leave prisoners -- oops, I mean women enjoying maternity leave -- thanks for finally updating! I keep checking, I keep checking... and am finally rewarded.
-AW
I must voice a complaint regarding the lack of entries in the baby news section.
-PK
I was looking through the family photos in your holiday trip summary, and seems to me that either you had an unusually warm Christmas up there or some of these photos were not taken at Christmas or, perhaps, your various friends and family members like to wear shorts and no shoes in the cold and have some sort of magical spray they put on all the surrounding vegetation to make it green. I think a footnote on your photos indicating which of these true would keep your Dear Reader from being confused. I hope no deceit was intended, and will rely on you to clarify the situation.
-MH
Nice cat story.
-PK
YOU are getting up early and exercising? What the [expletive deleted]?
-CA
Your legions of web page fans are once again bereft -- you have not provided us with an update in ages.
-TC
I'll be sure to try that 'bowl of death' on your recipe page. Hope you're having fun; I like your site.
-JN
In between student conference and in order to preserve some sanity, I checked out your website. Tres cool. I love the palindromes, complete with sassy illustrations!
-MR
When your mother came over to dinner last night, I told her that she must tell you to update your site more frequently.
-JT
Can I just say how much I hate those [expletive deleted] headset things people use these days. Whenever you go to someone's office and they have one, you can never tell if they're on the phone, and then when that confuses you, they get annoyed. Not to mention that the jackasses who use them are always the people who won't respond to a simple [expletive deleted] e-mail, thus requiring you to go to their office. [expletive deleted]!
-CA
I want you to know how much [my husband] and I enjoyed your marvelous web page. It is so creative and so diverse!
-JT
EGAD!!!! This web page has not been updated since MARCH 7 ???????
-CKF
When did you become a palindromist?
-CA
Please update your web page so that procrastinating Visiting Assistant Professors have something to do when not grading!
-TC
Just thought I would let you know that all of my staff lifeguards and front desk showed up on Columbus Day.
-DF
Please add this old lady to your list of fans who faithfully access your web site.
-JT
What's a palindrome? At first I thought it was a fancy name for an elephant, but then I decided that couldn't be quite right.
-MH
As the teens say - AWESOME! From whom did you borrow the tie???
-CKF
I absolutely love your web site. I enjoyed seeing the Nurse books, and recipes (especially for margaritas), and wonderful links.
-RT
Okay. I don't get out much. I keep checking out this interesting site to see if I can live big excitement vicariously through you and Kate. Do you think you could add to the web page!
-PK
Your new web site is wonderfully clever and entertaining; and it is certainly, in my humble estimation, worthy of five stars. That puts you in the esteemed company of poems.com and weather.com!
-JT
You're certainly making far better use of your IMac than I am.
-TC
You've got a new e-mail and a gregtulonen.com Web site. You're out of control.
-CA